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On behalf of NAAP, its Board of Trustees, its committees and staff, I'd like to welcome you here. NAAP has been quite effective in the last year on several fronts, particularly in political and legislative efforts. Thanks to the petition that was signed by many of you, we were able to send in 1400 signatures and fend off an attempt in the District of Columbia to have psychoanalysis limited to practice by physicians. Thanks to your signatures psychoanalysis has been taken out of that constraint in that district. Also, in New York State, Mark Siegel has recently issued his proposal for the governance of the practice of mental health professions in which he has made psychoanalysis a separate profession and NAAP a certifying body for psychoanalysis. Now that means that all those other organizations who would prefer not to have NAAP in existence will be mobilized. So we're going to have a very serious and significant year. We'll be calling on you in the year to come for more help, and particularly to tell your friends and colleagues whose lives, beliefs and professions may be affected by legislation, to join NAAP and give us their support as well. I'd like to pause for a moment before we go on to our program to say that I'm here this year not by right but rather by sad necessity, occasioned by the fact that the woman who was supposed to have been president this year, and who was so briefly, Ethel Clevans, died this year. I knew her only for a short time but I was very much impressed by her. She was a modern analyst and a teacher and lecturer, and I gather quite a wonderful and magnetic person. So I'd just like to pause for a moment in memory of Ethel.
In my mind the best praise for NAAP is that it exists at all. Just